News
30 November 2010
Unlike the Federal Government, the Mariy El Minister of the Interior does not see any grounds to apologize to Boris Rzhavin
29 November 2010
On 25-26 November in Nizhny Novgorod regional court there was an All-Russian Interdepartmental Theoretic and Practical Conference “Judicial protection of civil and human rights and freedoms when restrictive measures in the form of custodial placement, rel
25 November 2010
Boris Rzhavin and the Committee Against Torture have signed an amicable agreement with the Russian Federation in the context of ECtHR proceedings under Rzhavin’s police abuse application
25 November 2010
Today the Supreme Court of Chechnya has convicted two policemen for murder of two people and attempt on the life of one more person
23 November 2010
On 25 November in Yoshkar-Ola there will be a joint press-conference of the Committee Against Torture and Prosecutor’s Office devoted to the examination of Boris Rzhavin’s application by the European Court
22 November 2010
An International Forum on Constitutional Review in Saint-Perterburg has come to an end
19 November 2010
The sentence for Nizhny Novgorod policemen who beat a teenager into losing his kidney will not be lenient
19 November 2010
The Chechen population intends to organize a protest action against police abuse
18 November 2010
The Nizhny Novgorod regional court will decide whether the verdict imposing suspended sentence on two police officers from the Avtozavod district who beat a teenager into losing his kidney is well-founded
17 November 2010
On 25-26 November 2010 in Nizhny Novgorod there will be a regional interdepartmental theoretical and practical conference “Judicial protection of civil and human rights and freedoms when restrictive measures in the form of custodial placement, release on
17 November 2010
The Committee Against Torture demands an effective investigation into the death in Sergach
16 November 2010
On 17 November 2010 there will be a press-conference with Vyacheslav Dyundin, head of the Orenburg office of the Committee Against Torture
13 November 2010
The Nizhny Novgorod investigation authorities have been stonewalling the investigation upon the fact of Sormovsky cemetery director Mikhail Skobelev’s abuse by officers of the Economic Crimes Department
12 November 2010
The Bashkirian Ministry of the Interior wants to shun the responsibility for its subordinates
11 November 2010
The Supreme Court of Chechnya has doubled the compensation award to 300 000 rubles for the widow of the Chechen killed in 2005
10 November 2010
A Nizhny Novgorod police officer marks the Police Day with sincere repentance
09 November 2010
On the day when the Ministry of the Interior celebrates its professional day, in Ufa there will be pleadings under the case about school teacher’s murder by a police sergeant
09 November 2010
The Strasbourg Court celebrates the 60th anniversary of the ECHR with a new judgment under a torture case from Russia
08 November 2010
A police captain from Nizhny Novgorod is accused of beating a person
03 November 2010
A resident of Nizhny Novgorod is compensated for tortures in the Balakhna police